Opinion

Werter v. Board of Regents of New York

  • 18 A.D.2d 1032
  • 238 N.Y.S.2d 356
  • 1963 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 4169
Court
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Filed
Mar 13, 1963
Status
Published
Cited by
3 cases
Authority
More cited than 84.1%

The opinion

This is a proceeding under article 78 of the Civil Practice Act to review a determination of the Board of Regents which revoked petitioner’s license to practice medicine. Petitioner has been found guilty of fraud and deceit in the practice of medicine (Education Law, § 6514, subd. 2, par. [a]), and of unprofessional conduct (Education Law, § 6514, subd. 2, par. [g]). On the merits the evidence overwhelmingly establishes that petitioner submitted grossly exaggerated and false medical bills and medical reports to certain attorneys for use in obtaining settlements from insurance companies in negligence cases. Such evidence is not refuted. Petitioner urges that the determination cannot stand because a decision made by the Regents’ Committee on Discipline was arbitrary and without due process because the committee prejudged the case, the decision is dated the same day as the hearing, and that the committee failed to properly consider the matter. This contention is baskd upon assumption without support in the record. Under such circumstances the presumption of regularity must prevail. Moreover, under modern practice this court is entitled to .consider an affidavit of a Regent of the State I of New York and a member of the committee as to the procedure followed by the committee, submitted to the court and petitioner’s counsel subsequent to argument. The affidavit does not pertain to the merits of the ease but simply ^s to the procedure followed. The hearing was held on May 23, 1961. It appears that the record of proceedings before a subcommittee had been transmitted to the Committee on Grievances on April 12, 1961; that the matter was not decided until May 26, 1961, when all three members of the Committee on Grievances agreed upon a decision, which was then reduced to writing and signed by the chairman. It appears that it was the practice at that time to retain the date of the hearing as the date of the report and decision, although the latter was in fact not made until later. Determination confirmed, without costs. Coon, J. P., Gibson, Reynolds and Taylor, JJ., concur; Herlihy, J., concurs in the result.

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